Alexey Khokhlov
Chief Technology Officer at Solar Cybersecurity
Russia
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlexey Khokhlov is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building high‑load, security‑focused products and teams across fintech, crypto, and cybersecurity. He has repeatedly taken ideas from prototype to production—most recently launching a Threat Intelligence Platform and Security DNS at Solar Cybersecurity after architecting and scaling stream products at MTS.RED. Alexey combines hands‑on backend expertise in Go, Protobuf and microservices with deep mobile and real‑time systems experience dating back to iOS leadership roles and contributions to protobuf‑swift tooling. He has led engineering organizations of 40+ people, established CI/CD and product development processes from scratch, and delivered systems handling hundreds of thousands of RPS. An active open‑source maintainer, he contributed to the Homebrew legacy repo and to protobuf‑swift fixes that improved numeric and JSON handling for Swift consumers. Based in Russia, he blends operator rigor and startup grit, frequently straddling product, architecture and fundraising responsibilities.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computers, systems and networks, Master's degree, Computers, systems and networks at Московский Энергетический Институт (Технический Университет)
Русский, English
Github Skills (8)
homebrew10
swift10
datatypes10
package-management10
protocol-buffers10
build-system9
json7
automated-tests5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexeyxo/protobuf-swift
Jun 2014 - Aug 2018
Google ProtocolBuffers for Apple Swift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 releases, 442 commits, 46 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily worked on implementing and fixing issues related to data types and the protobuf runtime in Swift. They addressed problems with uint32/64 values, fixed issues with fixed/sfixed primitives, and resolved bugs related to negative int32 values. They also contributed to the implementation of protocol buffer extensions and addressing JSON issues.
apple-swiftprotocol-buffersprotobufnetworkingswift
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 6 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to updating the protobuf-swift formula within the homebrew/legacy-homebrew repository. Their commits focused on updating the formula to new versions of protobuf-swift, including version 1.6.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, and 2.4.3. These updates involved modifying the formula to correctly fetch, build, and install the specified versions of the protobuf-swift library, showcasing a focus on maintaining and updating package definitions.
macoshomebrew
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